Mounting tips upon billiard or like cues.



PATBNTED AUG. 16, 1904. L. P. G. HODSON.-

MOUNTING TIPS UPON BILLIARD 0R LIKE CUES'.

APPLICATION FILED 00T.19, 1903.

No MODEL a A .n

UNITED STATES Patented August 16, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

MOUNTING TIPS UPON BILLIARD OR LIKE CUES- SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 767,887, dated August 16, 1904, Application iled October 19, 1903. Serial No. 177,695. (No model.)

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, LEOPOLD PERCY Cor- PARD HoDsoN, a subject of His Majesty the King of Great Britain, residing at Shoreham, England, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in and Connected with the Mounting of Tips upon Billiard or Like Cues, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to improved means for mounting tips upon billiard and the like cues, the object being to provide not only an effective means for securing such tips in place by a drawing or tightening action of the parts, but a means whereby they can be readily removed and replaced when worn or damaged.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a sectional elevation of the upper end of a cue constructed in accordance with this invention. Figs. 2 and 3 are transverse sections on lines a and c CZ, Fig. 1, respectively; and Figs. 4, 5, 6, and 7 are elevations of the parts in detail shown separately.

1 is the end of the cue, which is preferably.

provided with a thin leather or like washer 2, secured thereto in any suitable manner. The en d 1 also carries an intern ally-threaded socket 3, embedded therein and preferably squareheaded on the outside 4 to prevent its turning, with which socket engages a screw 5, having a hollow head 6, which seats in a recess 7, formed in a cap or sleeve 8, of ivory, celluloid, Xylonite, metal, or other suitable material, which may be provided with aleather or like washer 9 on its under face, seating upon the washer 2, secured, as aforesaid, to the end 1 of the cue.

The hollow head or cap 6 of the screw 5 is slightly less in depth than the recess 7 in the cap 8, in which it seats, for the purpose hereinafter described, and in or to said head 6 is secured the leather portion or tip 10. For this purpose the tip 10 is provided with a projeetion or shank 11, of either the same or -a separate material, which passes through a hard leather, iiber, or other washer 12, which may be loose on the said neck or secured to the under face of the leather tip 10,l said shank 1l being located within the hollow head 6 of the screw 5 and being secured therein by a pin 13 passing through said head and through the shank 11, so that by removing the pin the it is desired to renew the tip.

The upperside of the cap 8 may be provided, as shown, with a leather or other washer 14 to abut against the washer l2 on the under face of the leather portion or tip l0, and, further, if desired, may carry dowel-pins 15 to engage in the cap 8 and the washer 12 to prevent the parts from turning.

To remove the leather tip 10, the latter and the cap 8 are loosened by unscrewing the screw 5 from the socket 3 in the end of the cue, when the tip 10, with the said screw 5, may be lifted clear of the cap 8. The leather portion can then be removed from the head 6 of the screw 5 by withdrawing the retainingpin 13 and another substituted therefor if required, the parts being replaced by screwing into the endl of the cue.

Owing to the head 6 being less in depth than the recess 7, a drawing or tightening action will be exerted on the leather portion during the process of tightening up, with the result that the tip proper will be drawn tightly onto the dowel-pins, which hold it and prevent it from turning. The cap 8 is at the same time held iirmly to the cue, the frictional contact between the opposing surfaces of the washers 2 and 9 preventing rotation at that point. The washers 2, 9, and 14 also act to absorb shocks.

Tips constructed and mounted in the abovedescribed manner not only possess the advantage of being firmly and securely held in position against dislodgment while the cue is in use, but the leather portion or tip proper being formed entirely separate from the other parts of the iitting may be sold alone for the purpose of renewals.

What I claim is- 1. The combination of a cue havinga threaded opening, a screw adapted to engage said threaded opening, a leather tip carried by said screw, a part interposed between the leather tip and the cue and fastened to saidtip, said screw, tip and interposed part being rotatable l on the head of the cue, whereby a tightening leather tip is removable from the head 6 when action is imparted to the said tip when said screw is turned by means of said interposed part in said threaded opening.

2. The con'ibination with a cue having a threaded opening, ot' a leather tip provided' with a shank, a screw having a hollow head, means for securing the shank of said' tip in said head, and a part interposed between said tip and the cue and connected with the tip, said interposed part being rotatable on the end of the cue, whereby a tightening' action is imparted to said tip when the screw is engaged with said opening and revolved.

3. The combination with a cue having a threaded opening, oi' a leather tip provided with a shank, a screw having a hollow head, a pin 'for securing said shank in said head, and a recessed part interposed between said tip and said cue and forming a seat for the head of sa'id screw, the recess in said part being oi' greater depth than said head, whereby a tightening action is imparted to the tip when the screw is engaged with the opening in the cue.

4. The combination with a cue having a threaded opening, of a tip provided with a shank, a screw having a head, means for securing said shank to said head, a part interposed between said tip and said eue and forming a seat for the head of said screw,and dowelpins to prevent the rotation of said tip upon said interposed part.

5. The combination with a eue having a threaded opening, a leather tip, a screw, a pin foi-securing said tip to said screw, a recessed part interposed between said tip and said cue and secured to said tip, said interposed part being rotatable on the end ofthe eue, a washer carried by said tip, and a washer carried by said interposed part, the two washers abutting against each other.

6. The combination with a cue having a threaded opening, of a leather tip, provided with a shank, a screw, a pin passing through said shank and said screw, a recessed part interposed between said tip and said cue and secured to said tip, said interposed part being rotatable on the end of the eue, a washer carried by said cue, and a washer carried by said interposed part and abutting on the washer carried by said cue.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

LEOPOLD 'BERCY COPPARD HODSON.

Witnesses:

A. KNIGHT CROAD, A. H. ALFORD. 

